People who are into sports know that everything can change in the blink of an eye. But unpredictability is a frequent guest in many other areas of life, too. The subreddits r/SecondsBeforeDisaster and r/MomentsBeforeDisaster have plenty of examples to prove it. These two online communities are full of pictures capturing that eerie point separating then and now, in situations that range from lighthearted interactions with animals to serious matters, such as ignoring safety regulations at work or even the start of a war. Scrolling through them feels like balancing on a doorstep between a warm, cozy home and a severe snowstorm.
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Footbridge Family Portrait
*Captain here: Happened in Krkonoše Mountains in Northern Bohemia in 2010 when a wedding party of 17 people took pics on the bridge. 7 of them were injured, the bride had a spinal injury and had to by transported to hospital by a helicopter. Later they sued the the woman who was in charge of the maintenance of the place and they wanted a million CZK as compensation, because injuries of 4 of them were permanent. The state prosecutor asked for 2 years prison sentence for the maintenance woman. In 2012 the court ruled there would be no compensation and acquitted the maintenance woman as experts' examination proved the beams only had had internal damage which hadn't showed on their surface and there had been no way for the maintenance woman to recognize it.*
Load More Replies...I hate it when people crowd on balconies and pedestrian bridges. Also elevators.
Jerk
Sometimes the wine gods help you out. In my university years I went home with a guy I was seeing, we both got pretty happy-drunk, spent the evening mostly on the couch with silly conversations and lots of laughter. Sometime during the evening I thought I sat my almost full wine glass down on the coffee table. When I woke up the next morning, I burst out laughing again, seeing what I actually did. The coffee table was almost empty, the only object on it was a large bowl full of decorative marbles, pebbles. I sat the glass on top of those, at an approx. 45 degree angle. It was still somehow standing. If I tried doing the same thing sober, there's no way I could've managed without toppling the glass over. But drunk? "I'll just put this right heeeeeeere, that'll do just fiiiiiine!"
I remember doing this to myself/my own PC when I was in my early 30s. I was drinking an energy drink while playing an online MMO with my then-boyfriend. I did something wrong in the game (got us both k!lled, attacked the wrong enemy, who knows) and my boyfriend went off on me about it. I started frantically apologizing, and while I was trying to somehow salvage the situation in-game, I knocked that tall, recently-opened energy drink allll over my PC XD What a disaster (and I mean that relationship.) Unfortunately I stuck with it another 10 years before I learned my lesson XD
I mean, serves you right for putting the wine glass that close to the edge.
Probably me. Just ask my husband. It drives him insane how I put my drinks on the edge of the table. I'm a little more carefree now that we don't have cats. It's usually water or Diet Sprite, not wine. ☺️
Load More Replies...Where Did You Say You Are?
01 Missed Call. IED That Was Defused Before The Detonation Call Was Received
Of course its a Nokia 3310. The only phone that can survive repeated explosions.
Good joke, really, but it doesn't look like 3310. It's 6130 or 6150.
Load More Replies...I very much enjoyed that news story where the b**b went off early, k*****g the perpetrators, because they forgot to account for daylight savings time.
I Don’t Think That’s A Pet, You Shouldn’t Invite It Into Your Car
It always makes me laugh when a wild animal just goes along with it. "Guess I'm a pet now, okay, fine"
👍😄 That's how we got to have pets in the first place, I guess.
Load More Replies...Coyote: ''I'll just...see how this goes, I suppose...''
There Is No Return
I feel worse about this pic than the cyclist above, the cyclist knew the risks, kid didn't?
Load More Replies...Except we had a home swing set and the chains were very small and my tiny fingers got stuck in them and ripped off the tips of most of my fingernails when i was around 6. I don't think I ever went on a swing after that and still have a phobia/nightmares about things under nails or losing them.
Direct By Robert E Weide
When she pulls this handle the door will open and the four of them will fall out of the car...
Load More Replies...Seconds Before Disaster
Thank goodness he or she is wearing a helmet. Magpies attack cyclists.
Yesterday I read that a young girl in my home town of Perth, Western Australia, is in danger of losing the sight in her eye from a magpie swoop just a few days ago. Multiple eye operations and more to come with no certainty she'll get full site back.
I have recently been told by a number of people that plovers do worse (I had no idea what plovers were until I moved to the country) but so far all I've seen is them walking away with their heads bobbing. I wish your friend all the best.
Load More Replies...A Picture Of Joseph Goebbels Accidentally Capturing The Moment He Found Out His Photographer Was Jewish
Yup, that's actually Stephen Miller. web_extrem...cbcb07.jpg
He went quite quickly. He poisoned himself. And his wife. And his children.
Load More Replies...Yes, he was way famous for the pic of WW2 Times Square kiss. I wish we could celebrate these people, they framed our world and they are unspoken.
Load More Replies...A good photographer will make them real...look at Churchill's photo after the photographer took his cigar. Real people in their realness. Not some paparazzi or photoshopped. This was his character, captured in realness - can't hide the horror of him.
I'm sure Stephen Miller is going to be pissed that someone found his phone's lock screen picture.
You Know How This Ends
Yep. XD Much better to distract kitty with a couple quick sounds, make them pause, then start grabbing handfuls of stuff to open a gap XD These days I've ended up with 6 cats in the house (5 of them kittens of varying ages...) and I've discovered that I don't REALLY need to have decorations out on shelves like this any more XD
Load More Replies...If this orange fellow is anything like my eldest, Kohl, then kitty probably entered the shelf area further over to the left or right, out of the picture shot, and crawled amongst the stuff to get to where it is now XD
Load More Replies...Oh My God
Or is it in a while it is a little distorted under water? ;)
Load More Replies...What Was His Master Plan Here?
Yo Check Out This Little Guy I Found! Isn't He So Cute!!!! 🥰
Now adding 'Jesus Mary and the wee orphans!' to my lexicon, TY!
Load More Replies...Please, guys, learn about the dangerous animals in the place you're going to visit.
not sure it's possible to learn all of the ones in Australia
Load More Replies...Venomous. Not poisonous. There's a big difference. Unless you plan on eating the octopus.
Load More Replies...Years Of Therapy To Fix This Damage
Tell me about it. My husband proposed during a game of Uno. I think he was just hoping I'd let him win.
“Pick up two” “Pick up.. 4” “Pick up… EIGHT!!” *aggressive knee slapping* “Pick up…TWELVE!” *shocked face*
Oh Grandma
Quack
You missed te video. The duck is about to try eating her hair.
Load More Replies...I keep a small flock of Muscovy ducks. Their 'bite' is startling but not harmful, like a two-year old suddenly pinching you.
Why? I lived in Florida briefly. Muscovy put the Floriduh in duhcks. I have never seen such a dumb bird😂😂😂. My grandma lived on a lake in Ohio so I was used to ducks and geese. Nobody prepares you for Muscovy. I feel bad for them. Watched one clothesline himself on a picnic table trying to fly in and land from a lake. It was crazy. He just missed. got back up and followed the others.🤷🏻♀️
Load More Replies...I Discovered Why You Shouldn't Wear A Full Circle Septum Ring When Around Cats
If you wear a full circle septum ring, you know it's GOING TO HAPPEN. Maybe not when.
I'm sorry that he is effecting your life with his septum ring /s
Load More Replies...We All Know What Happens Next At Your Local IKEA
Earthly Pleasures
Yeah, it's not as easy as the ladies in the Oktoberfest-tent make it look.
I was questioning that. There are regional variations to how much is acceptable/desirable but I’ve never worked somewhere that would tolerate over half the pint being head.
Load More Replies...He looks like Mike Skinner from 'The Streets'. "DRY YOUR EYES MATE!!!"
I See A Lot Of Damage
You do NOT understand the size of a whale until you're next to one. Then you learn real fast.
Photo Taken Before Livestream Of Ukraine Border Was Taken Down. This Is The First Image Of Russian Invasion
That's being overly polite... Though BP would censor ***************************** scumbags. So maybe you are correct.. :-)
Load More Replies...Fvcking Russian thieves, mur.derers and ra.pists. Hope their mamas are happy with the washing machines they got back instead of their sons.
Why the downvotes? The Russians have r***d, m******d and are thieves: that's just a fact. It's also a fact that more than a million russians have died already and no one in Russia bats an eye.
Load More Replies...Before he disappears I hope he suffers the worst pain possible
Load More Replies...A lot of the soldiers on the first day didn’t even know they were going to be invading somewhere. The ones that did were told that they would be welcomed in as they were saving Ukraine from a Nåzi government and people had been oppressed. Many were deeply confused and shaken when they found they were extremely unwelcome. If that’s how the armed forces are run, it’s no surprise the soldiers have no respect for human life either.
Agreed, some are just conscripts, trying not to get shot themselves. Some are just murdering, rapist, torturing a******s, just like you get in any army--even Americans (cue My Lai and Gitmo) Putin should burn in a hell of his own making for turning them loose. Most people just want to live and raise their kids, and then you get politicians who f**k things up for everybody.
Load More Replies...Doesn't Putin do that anyway especially when he acts big and hard
Load More Replies...Well, Dang
You get that little twinge of sympathy pain too? I hate it.
Load More Replies...That is why they are require to wear protective clothing. Imagine how much worse it would be if he had only a t shirt, shorts, tennis shoes and no helmet.
The Council Will Decide Your Fate
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College chem. Prof says if you're at a gas station and someone is smoking, leave and go across the street
Surprisingly safe actually. Almost impossible for the lit cigarette to ignite either liquid petrol (gasoline) or fumes. No, I won't be testing this myself.
It's not the liquid. You can actually douse a flame in gasoline. It's the fumes that will ignite. I hate pumping gas, because you're surrounded by fumes, that's what stinks.
Load More Replies...Yeah, again a) why are you standing there taking a photo? Secondly the staff can turn the pump off at the cash desk (for in case it catches fire) so that’s easily solved. I’ve made myself laugh by accidentally using a) and secondly so I’ll leave it in.
Thank you for leaving it in! Sometimes I'll use 1) a number; b) a letter and iii) a Roman numeral.
Load More Replies...Stuff like this, among many other things, is part of why I drive an electric vehicle.
Static Electricity Before Lightning Strikes
They did, but one of them committed sui🔞cide in 1989...😔
Load More Replies...That Very Friend At Your Wedding
That is one seriously funny photo b**b. I'd have to have that one framed and pride of place, what a great conversation starter
It's a great wedding pic! We had destination wedding that was just a road trip weekend in a popular tourist destination so it could be nice but cheaper. I wish I could see all the photos people took of us because we were having so much fun dressed up and tourists taking pics in silly situations. We have pics of strangers on our walls from 21 years ago!
Load More Replies...Whups
Seriously! Gravity is defying her breastś in that dress which as a full figured woman I know is impossible! Notice the 2 heathens to her right being dragged down to hèll? Dude on the left is just sliding down too. Or my gummy kicked in😂
Load More Replies...The Guy That Mows My Lawn Sends Me Snake Pics When He Finds Them So I Can ID For Him. He Sends Me This Today
I stand corrected. It is indeed a cottonmouth. Both are venomous pit vipers that have characteristic blocky, triangular-shaped heads, though their color darkens with age so that they look black. The patterns showing vividly on this snake indicate that's it's fairly young.
Not necessarily moments before disaster. The snake clearly does not feel threatened. That’s the only time they’ll bite.
I would have gotten that ID wrong, it looked like a Stimpson's python to me, but google shows the markings are different. I just have a bad memory, it looked like Hendrix, my stepdad's old snake. Living in Australia, you might think I would need to know more about venomous snakes, but so far the only ones I have seen match their names, a brown snake is brown, a redbelly black is black with a red belly.
My God give the man some sleeves and an ambulance, he looks like he's already been repeatedly bit!
A World Of Hurt
I'm fairly certain a soccer ball ended the old fellows' backgammon game and some heated words were exchanged. Canes were shaken in the air.
Load More Replies...The little girl, in the far back already knows what's about to happen and luckily she's far enough back to get a good head start.
Woman Taking Selfie Gets Too Close To Bison At Yellowstone
Amazing how completely people can lack any perception of danger. I stood this close to a bison once, except it was in a zoo and there was a very sturdy fence between us. (It had a large area to roam, but it liked to come up to the fence to see the people looking in.) Even though I was safe, the size of that magnificent animal sent shivers down my spine.
Our wildlife park had an inner and outer fence for the bison, both made of telephone poles and heavy wire. The inner fence was there to slow down the patriarch bull when he got grumpy and charged the tourists. He looked like a locomotive.
Load More Replies...My dad always said never trust an animal that's bigger than you are.
I'm very small (4'10"). I spent a lot of time around horses, they were bigger than I am.
Load More Replies...We have made the modern world so safe that we have bred generations of idiots.
I always root for the animals in this case. You have a zoom. Leave them alone.
Ooooof
nah he safe, there is a horizontal bar that is going to the weight from going lower and hitting him.
Load More Replies...Was It Worth It?
Cassowary (most dangerous bird in the world). These will fück you up.
The bird looks like it's just confirming that you realize you are going to be attacked and it's your fault.
I love Cassowarys but I wouldn't consider that. They make their dinosaur ancestors proud by being fierce.
Picture is all that's left of whomever took the photo. Poor, stupid soul.
I didn't realise their eggs were bright green. They look like clinkers without the chocolate on.
Where's the nest. These things bury their eggs in nest mounds two metres tall.
You might be thinking of a brush turkey - apparently cassowaries and emus just scrape a bit of a hollow. But wow, look at the colour! Amazing.
Load More Replies...Poor Mouse Got Encircled By 5 Cats
Watch Your Step
My Friend Just Sent Me This
How on earth does one manage to mess up that badly? I feel like you'd have to try to do that.
That's A Rip
It's That Time Of Year Again!
Photo Taken During Disaster
Because the other members of the family were sitting down and reading it, while waiting for the food? (But it was my first thought, too.)
Load More Replies...Me Bailing Out Of A Backflip A Little Too Late
Found This Gem Looking Through Old Baby Pictures
The little girl was beamed up by the UFO shortly after the photo was taken, never to be seen again?
That reminds me of when I accidentally kicked a football (afl) at my little brother's head. He was about 6 and sitting in his wheelchair towards the left of me, about two metres away. I kicked the ball towards he right but it went the opposite way and he couldn't even protect himself! He just laughed at me thankfully.
Me: “I Wanna Get Hammered Tonight” My Friend:
Friend: Look! I'm Thor! Other friend in a few minutes certainly will be.
If You Know, You Know
It's a commercial with this car driving down the road to calm soothing music and then all of a sudden a creepy face jumpscares you
Load More Replies...A friend pulled this one on me back in fifth grade. My first real trauma.
Fifth grade, that's around 9 or 10, right? Yeah, sounds about the age at which this sort of thing might seem funny.
Load More Replies...This looks realistic for someone with severe age related macular degeneration.
Heartbreaking
Was It Worth It?
There's Going To Be A Lot Of Swearing While Cleaning Up Spilled Coffee And Trying To Find Lost Nuts And Bolts
Drills don't go through cloth, they catch and twist. They twist even more when there is no clamp (or even a hand) holding down whatever you are drilling into.
The hand and the drill show evidence of an experienced user. I can't think of any reason to make this photo unless you were demonstrating a bad idea.
When he drills, it will likely twist the metal and in turn the towel and everything on it. Unless he holds it still...
Load More Replies...Now It’s Free Right?
Well at least they get free ice cream if the store follows the rules....
Oh, stop, I LOVE Dairy Queen! They don't have it here in the UK though :(
You are NOT missing much. I've had better ice cream out of the little truck that came around to our barn when I was working in the UK
Load More Replies...For Science
My older brother (by nine years) stuck a 9V battery on my tongue once. I was 11. I hated him for many weeks.
Oh dear * NOOOOOO. If I were on the jury, I would vote to acquit her of any charge(s), especially for battery.
Oh No
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Well Dang
Oh, this is funny. I’d like to see how many go down the slide after the first one falls. I love watching stupid people do stupid things.
Load More Replies...A Great White Ready To Chomp On An Unwary Seal
nature is cruel, but it's either the seal or the shark. Shark won't die because of one missed hunt, the seal is another deal 😕
Load More Replies...Man Dives Headfirst Into Shallow Waters
It's up to the chests of the men behind. That's only maybe 5 feet. That is NOT deep enough to be diving headfirst into safely.
Load More Replies...I Guess She Was Thirsty
Off course she would be thirsty after playing the tuba for half an hour !
That's a pair of cat nail trimmers. I have one just like it.
Load More Replies...Our cat did this all the time whenever my wife had a glass of milk. RIP Claire.
Pull It And See What Happens
Cat + Pigeon = ☠️
There is really no leash a cat could not get out of in 1 second if it wants to. This thing in the picture? Not even a whole second needed.
Load More Replies...One of my cats had a leash like that for going on walks with me. She played cool, walked nicely, perfect little cat. Until she saw a sparrow on the ground, and tore away so d**n fast that she basically pulverised the plastic clips. Thankfully sparrows operate in three dimensions so I just had one annoyed furball to console.
Name This
Gg
Hope he's having a good dream. It'll be the last one he'll ever have.
Reallife Jenga (Minor Disaster)
We Stacked 28 Chairs
Dopped My Phone 💀
Don’t Know What To Put Here
Oh Yeah, It’s All Going Down Now
Target Acquired
Soda
Short Circuit
Thought This Would Fit This Sub Well (Source: @jholtillus)
This artisan is about to find a whole new meaning of bull in a china shop.
Um... whatever you do, don't look up this @Jholtillus zelda to find the original like I did, at least using the Brave browser. What the actual f**k
You Can Imagine
Gender Reveal Balloons
Long before health and safety became a real downer we had a science teacher who for the new entrants to his class, would fill a balloon with hydrogen and rig it to be pulled into a bunsen burner. Mr Walker, you made science AWESOME. :-)
Load More Replies...That’s Gonna Leave A Mark!
Wholesome
Ono
So... We Gonna Drop This?
Anyone work out what sort of boards those are? They seem to have handles and their occupants appear to be lying down. Certainly nothing designed for the snow. if they were then this would not in principal be a dangerous slope, looks quite fun.
They are sleds, intended for the snow. Sleds are generally used sitting down.
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I Just Saved A Cat From Being Eaten By A Fox (UK)
If they can catch them, they will eat them. My friend & I were outside her house when a neighborhood cat came running as fast as he could and dived behind us, the fox was right on his tail & didn't notice us until he almost ran into us...slinked off really disappointed. But maybe the UK foxes are more civilized? like their badgers that don't badger like the ones here in the USA IYKYK
Load More Replies...Our old farm tomcat beat the bejeebers out of a fox for getting too close to the chicken coop.
A lot of confidently incorrect people in this comments section. In the UK, if they have strength in numbers, foxes absolutely will attack and k.i.l.l cats. I've rescued my own cat from three adult foxes that were ganging up on it. My neighbour's cat wasn't so lucky & got torn apart, we found it's remains the next day. These were urban foxes in the suburbs of a large UK city.
Before It All
when you get an explanation let me know because I dont get it either
Load More Replies...I Jokingly Told My Friend To Delete System 32 For More Space As A Joke… I Think I Broke His PC
Yep. Even in the dim days of my childhood and savage teen years in the mid-90s, we didn't pull this "prank"/"joke" even on other kids we hated.
Load More Replies...He Will Never Be Bowlin
Those people should be banned from bowling establishments for life. I had to call police and have people removed when a group of people (drunk) thought this would be funny. You want to play basketball, take your stumpy @ss to a b-ball court but don't cause damage to the very expensive equipment in a bowling center.
Everytime Am I Right
I went up into the attic today to put away my Halloween skeledogs. I got to the top of the ladder and looked around for a spot to put the skeledogs. I noticed I'd apparently labeled a box "GIANT LIGMA" at some point and left it to the side of the ladder. Curious, I opened the box. It was full of..... balls XD (Christmas ones, of course.) At age 43, this joke is still funny, apparently XD (or at least Past Lakota thought so...)
The joke is: you ask someone "Have you heard of ligma?" They reply "No, what's ligma?" and you yell back "LIGMA BALLS!!!" (lick my balls.) Very much 13-year-old boy humor XD
Load More Replies...My Phones Still Standing
This Text My Friend Got From His Girl…
Person is trying to weasel out of having done something cheaterly while in a room full of girls, while posing it as a "hypothetical question" to "baby".
Load More Replies...Frames Before
I just found the video clip, but I won't share any link here, because it's f🔞cking disgusting to watch...here's the clip's caption →Dude Hits Chick With A Brutally Sneak Punch For Talking Ish After Allegedly Getting Him Evicted...🙅🏽
My dear Rokas Laurinavičius and all the other contributors involved, why are you posting this???? You'd censor any tiny sound a tooting mice would make, but at the same time you submit screenshots of the most brutal depictions of violence...🤨
Load More Replies...Older Brother Smackdown
You know most of these are all Photoshopped right?
Load More Replies...Too many repeats and only maybe 2 actually funny ones (like the cats/dogs jumping on their owners and stuff were funny, not people getting hurt)
Too many repeats and only maybe 2 actually funny ones (like the cats/dogs jumping on their owners and stuff were funny, not people getting hurt)
